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Dell pulls the plug on EMC relationship

Dell this week officially ended its 10-year partnership with EMC, saying it would no longer sell EMC products after making a series of storage acquisitions over the past four years.

Customers who purchased EMC storage from Dell will continue to receive support, Dell said in a statement, but it is ending its OEM and reseller deals for EMC Clariion, Celerra, Data Domain and VNX systems.

Tintri, the startup that came out of stealth with a virtual machine (VM) storage appliance for VMware environments in April, this week rolled out a larger-capacity, dual-controller system that includes VM auto-alignment and a reporting tool that identifies latency from the guest operating system through the storage.

The Tintri VM storage appliances only support storage with VMware, although Tintri executives say they expect to add support for other hypervisors. The appliances do not support physical servers.

John Gilmartin, Coraid’s vice president of corporate marketing, said the vendor will use the Yunteq software with its ATA over Ethernet (AoE)-based EtherDrive SANs beginning in the first half of 2012. The software is targeted at providers looking to build public storage clouds based on Coraid systems. Yunteq’s YunController Suite of cloud orchestration and management software provides features such as multi-tenancy, a RESTful API and policy-driven control over cloud infrastructure resources.

Pivot3 and GreenBytes today extended their iSCSI SAN product lines with systems optimized for VDI storage.

Pivot3 rolled out its vStac VDI appliance, which the vendor claims can handle as many as 115 virtual desktops per box. GreenBytes launched its HA-3000 iSCSI SAN appliance with inline deduplication. The appliance is designed primarily—although not solely—as storage for a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI).

John Webster, senior partner for the Evaluator Group analyst firm, said there is a demand for these types of systems because VDI storage requirements are often different from those of the mainstream.

FileStore N8300 5.7 now can be used as a storage target in virtual machine environments, where a file-level cloning feature is used to create a golden image and users can clone that image into thousands of VMDK files, said Yogesh Agrawal, Symantec’s vice president and general manager for the FileStore Product Group. Symantec also leveraged code from Veritas Cluster File System to create a deduplication module in the FileStore appliance to reduce redundancies in the VMDK files.

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